Police control of classified information

Ian Batten ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:31:03 +0100


>
> When we did the security system for the computerised red box project  
> for
> David Clark, the software was not cleared to such levels, but the
> limiting factor in this was the actual algorithms.

Presumably that would be slightly different now, as AES is the first  
time we've had an algorithm that is simultaneously cleared for SECRET  
when appropriately used and also publicly available.

ian